{"product_id":"this-tilting-world-9781931883948","title":"This Tilting World","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the night following the terrorist attack that killed thirty-eight tourists on the beach at Sousse, a woman sits facing the sea and writes a complicated love letter to her homeland, Tunisia, which she feels she must leave forever. She also writes of her personal tragedies--the deaths of her father, a quiet man, and of another lifelong friend, who just weeks ago died at sea, having forsaken the writing that had given his life meaning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of a trilogy on the history of Tunisia's Jewish community, Fellous's story nods to Proust and encompasses a multitude of colorful portraits, sweeping readers onto a lyrical journey from Tunisia to Paris to a Flaubertian village in Normandy, full of the voices of loved ones now silent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten with echoes of Roland Barthes's gorgeous fragmentary texts, such as \u003ci\u003eA Lover's Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e, Fellous's creative memoir is at once a political and cultural portrait of a region that has sat at the center of world history for millennia, as well as a search into her own memory, emotions, and family history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Lines Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931883948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Colette Fellous","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670869110940,"sku":"9781931883948","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_38d35432-5d5b-4e9e-bad1-6e458bf3345b.jpg?v=1603923833","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/this-tilting-world-9781931883948","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}